http://www.greatsite.com/timeline-english-bible-history/martin-luther.html
One cannot help but admire this man, his act that day took great courage, for during that time it was fairly common for the church to execute heretics and he was labeled a heritic by the Catholic church for the writings that he nailed to the church door on that Halloween day in 1517.
One of my favorite books on prayer was written by Martin Luther, it is called " A Simple Way to Pray", you can get it here in PDF format.
http://www.greatsite.com/timeline-english-bible-history/martin-luther.html
He also left behind some great quotes, and he loved books and spoke well of dogs, so that makes him a pretty decent fellow in my eyes.
Some of his quotes include:
“This life therefore is not righteousness, but growth in righteousness, not health, but healing, not being but becoming, not rest but exercise. We are not yet what we shall be, but we are growing toward it, the process is not yet finished, but it is going on, this is not the end, but it is the road. All does not yet gleam in glory, but all is being purified.”
“I have so much to do that I shall spend the first three hours in prayer.”
“True humility does not know that it is humble. If it did, it would be proud from the contemplation of so fine a virtue.”
“There never yet have been, nor are there now, too many good books.”
“The dog is the most faithful of animals and would be much esteemed were it not so common. Our Lord God has made His greatest gifts the commonest.”
“I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures and engraving them in the heart of the youth.”
“Let the wife make her husband glad to come home and let him make her sorry to see him leave.”